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Unsteady, watermarked footage taken from inside a shipping container rarely garners such a strong reaction.
This video, captured by a YouTuber and currently under scrutiny after a trespassing complaint, offers the public its first glimpse inside the shipping container itself.
Shirts, believed to belong to the alleged cop killer Dezi Freeman, still hang by the entrance of the container, which is hidden on a sprawling 35-hectare property in Victoria’s High Country.
Nearby, an overturned boat bears bullet holes, a grim reminder of the shootout in which Freeman was fatally shot by police late last month.
The scene is chaotic, with a large pile of cushions, boxes, buckets, and shelves cluttered with items typically found in a shed.
But there are also signs of someone apparently living there: an old heater, blankets, a rice cracker box, Ugg boots and a stack of car batteries apparently hooked up to a generator and solar panels outside.
Methylated spirits, vitamins, a notepad and pen and some tissues sit on a table in the corner of the container.
In one wall there’s a huge hole apparently caused when the police BearCat pushed a nozzle through to gas Freeman out.
There’s an old brown couch, a hand-wound AM/FM radio, a stick blender hanging from a wall and a bunch of other stuff that can only really be described as rubbish.
YouTube channel The Chaos Chronicles published the video on April 16 and it has since racked up more than 60,000 views.
Victoria Police tonight confirmed it was investigating a report of trespass at the Murray River Road property in Thologolong on that date.
“Investigators are aware of a video posted online in relation to the trespass and are investigating the circumstances,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
“The investigation remains ongoing.”
The man in the video says he sent his drone up to have a look and was “sticking to the rules” but when it crashed on the property he decided to get it back.
“So obviously, after the drone crashed, I had to go in there to retrieve it, especially because it crashed right in a very dry tree,” he says.
“I was absolutely overwhelmed with concern that it might start a fire, so I had to go and retrieve the drone.”
He later adds: “We’re here getting the real footage now. Don’t worry about the drone footage.”
Police say Freeman killed Senior Constable Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart on a property in Porepunkah, about 90 kilometres south-east of Thologolong, in August last year.
He fled into the bush, sparking a massive manhunt that only came to an end with his death last month. 
A date for an inquest is yet to be announced.
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